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The observer is the past because the past is remembrance, experience, knowledge stored up in memory

The observer is the past because the past is remembrance, experience, knowledge stored up in memory

From Small Group Discussion 3, Bombay (Mumbai), 14 January 1977

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The observer is the past because the past is remembrance, experience, knowledge stored up in memory. Then the past is the observer and he observes the present, which is my jealousy and reactions. Which is, I observe my jealousy and I give the word ‘jealousy’ to that feeling because I have recognised it as happening in the past. So it is a remembrance of jealousy. The word is part of the past. So, can I observe without the observer, which is the past, and without the word? Does the word bring that feeling, or is there a feeling without the word? All this is part of self-knowledge.

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